Wow, these are all amazing links! Thanks so much. This should keep me busy for a while!
On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 10:49 AM, Santiago A. <s...@ciberpiula.net> wrote: > El 01/01/2018 a las 19:17, Yves Cloutier escribió: > > Hi there, > > > > I'd be interested to know if any modern compilers have been written in > > Pascal (other than the Pascal Compiler). > > > > It's unfortunate that that most Pascal books out there are rather > > dated. I did recently purchase > > The first version of nim language https://nim-lang.org/ was written in > Pascal. Here are the sources > https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/tree/ea1f1ec6d4d6c776eb0f81c2bebdd4 > cb4c817ebe/nim > > Many times, when compiler is mature, the compiler is re-written in the > target language itself. Freepascal compiler is written in Freepascal. > > First version of compiler must be written in other language, (of course, > the are not compilers for the language ), usually a language that > generates binary, compiling is very demanding to rely on virtual > machines Probably that is why there are not Java compilers written in > Java, or Python or Perl compilers written in Python or Perl . As usual, > the most popular language will be most used language: C, C++ > > > -- > Saludos > > Santiago A. > >
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